Set in Togo, West Africa, Ashakara is a modern African tale. An African doctor finds a cure to a deadly virus and decides to mass produce the drug at low cost in Africa. However, a pharmaceutical multinational does not want the doctor to succeed and sends an agent to Africa first to buy the drug then to destroy it...Mixing action, suspense, good humor, and a lucid depiction of the contemporary African continent, Ashakara entertains and educates all at once.

Official Selection, Cognac International Festival of the Thriller, 1992

This true, shocking, astonishing story of what the Belgians
did in the Congo was forgotten for over 50 years. Congo: White
King, Red Rubber, Black Death describes Leopold II, King of
the Belgium's private colony of the Congo between 1885 and
1908 as a gulag labor camp of shocking brutality. Leopold
posed as the protector of Africans fleeing Arab slave-traders
but, in reality, he carved out an empire based on terror to
harvest rubber. Families were held as hostages, starving to
death if the men failed to produce enough wild rubber. Children's
hands were chopped off as punishment for late deliveries.
The Belgian government has denounced this documentary as a
"tendentious diatribe" for depicting King Leopold II as the
moral forebear of Adolf Hitler, responsible for the death
of 10 million people in his rapacious exploitation of the
Congo. Yet, it is agreed today that the first Human Rights
movement was spurred by what happened in the Congo.

Jarreth Merz, a Swiss-Nigerian actor living in Los Angeles, is summoned to Nigeria to bury his father. Nigerian tradition mandates the eldest child to take charge of a father’s burial. Although he accepts the responsibility, he struggles with why he feels morally responsible toward Nigerian tradition and a family whom he hardly knows. Jarreth starts a journey of self-discovery.

This animated film exquisitely recounts the tale of tiny Kirikou born in an African village in which Karaba the Sorceress has placed a terrible curse. Kirikou sets out on a quest to free his village of the curse and find out the secret of why Karaba is so wicked.

Lisa Nesselson of Variety (11/1/99) notes: “KIRIKOU AND THE SORCERESS employs snappy visuals to tell a catchy story for all ages. A blend of African folktales “Kirikou” has both humor and flair.” KIRIKOU depicts a precocious newborn infant who battles ignorance, and so-called evil, with endearing perseverance. This film speaks to the child within us all who yearns to express and defend the best in others and ourselves. KIRIKOU’s stunning visuals are accented by a traditional music soundtrack by African music giant Youssou N’ Dour of Senegal.

Winner of the Sakharov Prize 2014, Doctor Mukwege is internationally known as the man who mends thousands of women who have been raped during the 20 years of conflicts in the East of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, one of the poorest countries on the planet, despite its extremely rich sub-soil.
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Faced with a drought that endangers the
continuity of their people, Masai elders are convinced
that they have been cursed by the Red God -- the God
of Vengeance. Following the death of the war chief,
a group of adolescents must now cross over to adulthood,
forced to quickly form a new generation of inexperienced
but brave warriors. The adolescents must bring back
the mane of a legendary lion, which appears at every
critical period of the Masai history to appease the
wrath of the God and bring back the rains. The survival
of their culture depends on this quest.

Shot in Mozambique, but set in an unnamed city, the film depicts the life of an orphan boy, Nelio, whose parents were killed by guerrillas. He escapes to the city and finds magic there and is soon rumoured to possess healing powers, in this violent, yet mythic coming-of-age story. Based on a novel by the popular Swedish writer Henning Mankell.

A musical road movie, Return to Gorée follows Senegalese singer
Youssou N'Dour's historical journey tracing the trail
left by slaves and the jazz music they created. Youssou
N'Dour's challenge is to bring back to Africa a jazz repertoire
of his own songs to perform a concert in Gorée,
the island that today symbolizes the slave trade and stands
to honor its victims.

From Atlanta to New Orleans, from New
York to Bordeaux and Luxembourg, the songs are transformed,
immersed in jazz and gospel. Transcending cultural divisions
and rehearsing with of some of the world's most exceptional
musicians, Youssou N'Dour is preparing to return to Africa
for the final concert...

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SEXY MONEY

A reflection of the difficult social conditions of women in many societies in different parts of the world, SEXY MONEY explores frontally with much sensitivity and compassion the broken hopes and hard choices of poor Nigerian women as they struggle to reintegrate Nigerian society with dignity after being expelled from Europe where they worked as prostitutes.
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